Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation /
Nash, Gary B.
Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation / Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges. - New York : Basic Books, c2008. - vii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index.
Starting a revolution -- Fighting for freedom -- Peace and war -- Struggles for liberty -- Long endings.
Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army.--From publisher description.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Kościuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
Hull, Agrippa, 1759-1848.
Slavery--History--United States--18th century.
Liberty--United States.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
United States--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--1783-1815.
Poland--History--Revolution of 1794.
E206 / .N36 2008
973.3
Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation / Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges. - New York : Basic Books, c2008. - vii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index.
Starting a revolution -- Fighting for freedom -- Peace and war -- Struggles for liberty -- Long endings.
Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army.--From publisher description.
9780465048144 0465048145
2007045151
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Kościuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817.
Hull, Agrippa, 1759-1848.
Slavery--History--United States--18th century.
Liberty--United States.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
United States--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--1783-1815.
Poland--History--Revolution of 1794.
E206 / .N36 2008
973.3